Clinical innovation teams
- Maternity and newborn care
- Child health
- Staying healthy
- Planned care
- Long term conditions
- Learning disability
- Acute care
- Mental health
- End of life care
Working together
- New cough campaign launched to raise awareness of lung cancer
- The companion document for COPD and asthma strategy released by the Department of Health
- Home Oxygen Service contract awarded to Air Liquide covering several localities in the North East
- Launch of the NHS Companion Document to the COPD & Asthma Strategy due out 11th May 2012
- GMC launches learning disability website
- Do you understand learning disability?
- College of medicine's new self care library
- Mental health trust scoops four national awards
Professor Sir John Burn
North East Lead Clinician
Welcome to the Clinical Network website
The NHS in the north east employs over 50,000 clinicians - doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and healthcare scientists – delivering the very best quality healthcare services for around 2.5 million people across the region. In the north east, we have the some of the best satisfaction levels with 91 per cent of people agreeing that they receive a good service from their local NHS.
However, we know we can always improve the service we provide; the challenge is to do this in a consistent way.
In 2010, the coalition government endorsed the NHS definition of quality, the need to place it at the heart of all that we do and the need for greater productivity.
Professor Sir John Burn
North East Lead Clinician
Despite the recent good settlement for health, the NHS needs to ensure efficiency improvements over the next four years and implement changes for the redesigned delivery of health and healthcare services.
We are now reorganising our clinical groups to prepare for the future but our mission remains unchanged. We must continue to work together to find ways of doing more for less. More than ever, we need to reach across boundaries to find more efficient ways of working.
It is up to us.
